"If we put together three reverse points in Slovakia, Hungary
and Poland then we can reach 25 billion cubic meters a year in
the mid-term which would provide the solution Ukraine needs at
the moment," Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico told
reporters.

The decision to start the so-called reverse gas flows is part of
the EU's response to Gazprom's decision to cut supplies to Kiev on June 16.

Domestic gas production in Ukraine annually is about 20 billion
cubic meters.

Hungary and Poland also have pipelines capable of delivering gas
to Ukraine. However the Slovak pipeline has the biggest capacity
of the three.